Daily Dose Of Funny

The Funny Man September 23rd, 2007

Heroes is an awesome show, but with so many characters, story lines and secrets, things can get a little confusing at times, and it can be daunting for new viewers who haven’t watched the show from the beginning. So, to help all you people who intend to watch the show when it comes back for a second season this Monday, here is a guide to the cast of characters that tells you everything you need to know.

Hiro Nakamura
Played by: Masi Oka
Super Power: Hiro can manipulate time and space. By trying really hard to go number two.

Hiro was the unlikely break out star of the show, proving the Americans really do love everything Japanese.

Ando Masahashi
Played by: James Kyson Lee
Super Power: None

Ando is more widely known as “the other Japanese dude.” His primary role in the story is to give Hiro someone to say noble things about heroism to. Also, to give Hiro someone to save from time to time.

James Kyson Lee is actually not Japanese at all, he is a Korean-American. Thankfully all those Asian people look the same to us, so this was not a problem.

Matthew “Matt” Parkman
Played by: Greg Grunberg
Super Power: Mind Reading.

Parkman is an interesting character because he manages to show that even if men were able to read minds, they still wouldn’t know what the hell their wives want.

Nathan Petrelli
Played by: Adrian Pasdar
Super Power: Flying.

Nathan Petrelli spent a good portion of the last season struggling with the tough moral question of whether or not he should allow half of New York to be destroyed by an explosion. In the end he decided that the killing of millions of people was probably not a good thing, but it was a close call.

Peter Petrelli
Played by:Milo Ventimiglia
Super Power: he can absorb the power of any other hero. By standing next to them. For like, a second. Obviously Milo Ventimiglia is sleeping with someone pretty high up because this power is ridiculously better than any other in the series.

Despite having such an amazing super power Peter didn’t manage to stop his beloved from dying. And he needed tons of help to defeat bad guy Sylar. And he didn’t even kill him. And he almost exploded half of New York. And he might have killed his brother. Nice going, moron.

Nicole “Niki” Sanders
Played by: Ali Larter
Super Power: Being hot. Also, Niki is sometimes taken over by an alter ego (Jessica) who has super strength. The alter ego is also hot.

Have I mentioned that she is hot?

D. L. Hawkins
Played by: Leonard Roberts
Super Power: Can make himself immaterial, allowing him to go through stuff.

Married to Niki, who is hot. He tried to to leave her when it turned out she had an alternate personality who was a murderer, showing an disturbing lack of commitment to the sacred institution of marriage. And to hot women.

Micah Sanders
Pleyed by: Noah Gray-Cabey
Super Power: Electronics Whisperer

Son of Niki. Who is hot.

Ok, I’ll stop now.

Isaac Mendez
Played by: Santiago Cabrera
Super Power: Can paint the future.

Issac Mendez is a troubled artist, who has had problems with drugs and … oh, who cares, the guy is dead, so we don’t have to think about him anymore.

I guess that in the second season they are going to have to find something other than future predicting paintings to move the plot forward.

Gabriel “Sylar” Gray
Played by: Zachary Quinto
Super Power: He can absorb the super powers of others, but in order to do that he has to crack their skull open and see in their brains how the power works. Since the super powers in the show are caused by genetic mutations you would imagine any cell would be good enough to see how it works, but no, it always has to be the brain.

Sylar is considered the bad guy of the show, but really, he is just misunderstood. He doesn’t want to kill all those people, but he has to in order to get their powers. What would you do in this situation? And It’s all his parents faults really.

Also, if you had spent months acquiring your super powers the hard way and you met Peter Petrelli, who suddenly has all the powers you have without really having to do anything, wouldn’t you want to kill him too?

Claire Bennet
Played by: Hayden Panettiere
Super Power: Healing factor. You know, like Wolverine.

For some reason people keep referring to Claire as “The Cheerleader.” As in: “Save the cheerleader,” “Are you the cheerleader?” and “Did I save the cheerleader?” She has a name you guys.

Noah Bennet
Played by: Jack Coleman
Super Power: Looking cool in horn-rimmed glasses.

Initially a villain, Mr. Bennet ended up being turned in one of the guys by the end of the first season. because apparently you just can’t hate a mean in horn-rimmed glasses.

Mohinder Suresh
Played by: Sendhil Ramamurthy
Super Power: Hos blood has some healing properties, but I’m not sure that counts as a real super power. I mean, so lame.

A scientist whose father not only discovered the existence of the super powered people but also identified many of them. His father also apparently had a super power that allowed him to get DNA samples of random people from all over America. Sure could have been useful to the police.

That’s it. Now all you have to do is enjoy the show.

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